Shell-bar

Shell-bar is a small program that draws a pretty bar in your shell prompt. Currently this has only been tested with Bash. The bar gets a random colour for each terminal window. This has been tested to work on the following terminals:

• gnome-terminal 3.22
• konsole 16.12
• xfce4-terminal 0.8.3
• xterm 327
• rxvt-unicode-256color 9.22 (with -oldterm)
• terminology 0.9.1 (with -oldterm)
• mate-terminal 1.12.1 (with -oldterm, true-colour support should be in v1.16)

Build

Shell-bar compiles with GCC 5, 6, and 7. Just type make.

Install

Edit the Makefile to set your install prefix. Then run

make install

To see an example of how to enable shell-bar in your .bashrc, see below.

Additional info scripts

This distribution currently has two extra scripts:

• git
• Python VirtualEnv

And a helper script to setup the shell-bar with the desired plugins. If you create additions of your own, share, pull-request!

Example section in .bashrc

case "$TERM" in
rxvt*)
	export VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1
	source setup-shell-bar.sh time return-value git
	;;
xterm*|x-term*)
	export VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1
	source setup-shell-bar.sh time return-value venv git
	;;
*)
	PS1="[\[\e[1m\]\#\[\e[m\]]-[\[\e[32m\]\u@\h\[\e[m\]]"
	PS1+="-[\[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[m\]$ "
	;;
esac

Anaconda Users

For the correct display of anaconda virtual environments it is best to add to or create a .condarc file in your home directory.

Add the following line:

changeps1: False